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When The Wall Street Journal Tries to Make Letitia James’ Public Records Disappear

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A forensic accountant’s guide to media misdirection The Clever Little Trick The Wall Street Journal’s Gina Heeb, Brian Schwartz, and C. Ryan Barber just ran 800 words about “improper access” at Fannie Mae without mentioning the New York State Financial Disclosure Statements that started this investigation. Not once. Those statements—showing phantom mortgages and mathematical impossibilities—are posted on a public website. […]

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Andrew Torrez & Liz Dye’s LegalEagle Analysis of Letitia James: Confused Two Mortgages in Two States”

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How 330,000 Views Bought a Defense That Confused Two States, Missed the Indictment’s Most Damaging Evidence, and Accidentally Proved the Crime Attorney Andrew Torrez and legal commentator Liz Dye published a Substack article and created a 21-minute video on LegalEagle’s channel defending Letitia James from federal fraud charges. 330,000 people watched them argue the case is weak, politically motivated, and

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How POLITICO’s Defense of Letitia James Accidentally Proved the Case Against Her

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The One Year POLITICO Forgot to Check Three words in Letitia James’s mortgage contract could doom the fraud case against her, according to POLITICO. Three legal experts agreed: the phrase “including short-term rentals” meant James was permitted to rent the Norfolk property to her grandniece Thompson. The indictment is doomed. There was just one problem. Nobody checked what happened during

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When Legal Experts Get the Law Wrong: A Forensic Deconstruction of Lawfare’s Defense of Letitia James

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When You Can’t Refute the Evidence, Attack the Messenger: Lawfare’s Failed Defense of Letitia James THE TELL: WHEN LEGAL EXPERTS RESORT TO CHARACTER ASSASSINATION One day after New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on federal bank fraud charges, Lawfare—a publication that bills itself as providing rigorous legal analysis—published their take on the case. They called it “dangerously weak.”

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The NY Times Created an Unsolvable Trap: How Media Defense Proved Letitia James’s Fraud

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A Real-Time Investigation as the Media Defense Creates an Unsolvable Trap HOW IT STARTED: THE MATHEMATICAL IMPOSSIBILITY In February 2025, I was reading New York Attorney General Letitia James’s financial disclosure forms—the kind of work forensic accountants do that most people find incredibly boring. That’s when I found it. 3121 Peronne Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia James listed this property with a

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The Leak Before the Briefing: An Investigation into DOJ Obstruction in the Letitia James Case

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Two DOJ employees disclosed an internal “no probable cause” finding before their supervisor could brief the U.S. Attorney—raising potential violations of DOJ policy and obstruction concerns. WHAT WE FOUND • Two DOJ employees in Norfolk, Virginia leaked their supervisor Elizabeth Yusi’s internal prosecutorial determination to MSNBC • The leak revealed Yusi’s “no probable cause” conclusion about charging New York Attorney

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The Anatomy of a Cover-Up: How MSNBC and Lawfare Whitewash Letitia James’s 20-Year Mortgage Fraud Pattern

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A Line-by-Line Forensic Examination of Media Coordination Within 24 hours, two major media outlets published articles defending New York Attorney General Letitia James against federal mortgage fraud allegations. Lawfare published yesterday a 2,000-word article by Molly Roberts claiming James was merely “helping her niece buy a starter home.” MSNBC reported today that federal prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi sees “no probable cause”

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Federal Prosecutors Have Everything They Need to Convict Letitia James – So Why Won’t Erik Siebert Act? The Evidence ABC News Won’t Report

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ABC News reported yesterday that U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert may be fired after declining to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud. According to their sources, despite a five-month investigation that found evidence, Siebert chose not to bring charges. Whether or not that reporting proves accurate, the evidence itself is overwhelming and deserves to be examined on

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The Working Families Party Elite-Funded Operation That Systematically Violated NYC Campaign Finance Disclosure Rules

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This investigation documents how Working Families Party coalition campaigns—including mayoral winner Zohran Mamdani, Comptroller candidate Justin Brannan, and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams—appear to have violated disclosure requirements through coordination that may have circumvented rules designed to ensure voter transparency. Equally troubling, documented relationships between Campaign Finance Board personnel and the WFP coalition raise questions about whether oversight itself was

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The Mamdani Playbook: Politico Coordination, Record Alterations, and Threats Against Forensic Analysis

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When a forensic accountant exposed a $2+ million PAC operation disguised as ‘grassroots,’ institutional power struck back with record alterations, coordinated media manipulation through Politico, and legal threats – revealing how political establishments silence forensic investigation. “I corrected my tweet. Please revise or I’ll send a defamation claim.” This sequence of events started when Politico’s Jeff Coltin appeared to coordinate

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